Though Richard Brinsley Sheridan, David Garrick, Isaac Bickerstaff, and the sensational German import, August von Kotzebue are identified as important sources for Austen, Gay argues persuasively for the seminal role of women playwrights from Susannah Centlivre at the beginning of the century to Frances Sheridan, Hannah Cowley, and Elizabeth Inchbald (who also adapted Kotzebue) at the end.

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